Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 13:26 UTC (Wed) by Felix (guest, #36445)
In reply to: Which init system for Debian? by rahvin
Parent article: Which init system for Debian?

> I even believe at some point down the road Google will shift android to it if for no other reason than continuing to lesson their development burden.

Well, Google has made big strides in the past to avoid any GPL licensed code wherever they could so I'd be surprised if they start to use systemd.

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 15:05 UTC (Wed) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (1 responses)

Like the Linux kernel you mean?

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 15:09 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

The Linux kernel is pretty much the only exception. Everything else is distributed under more liberal licenses: No glibc, no udev, ...

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 15:54 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (2 responses)

Systemd is LGPL2.1+, not GPL nowadays which makes it fair game. I'm not saying that Android will switch to it, but licensing issue is not a problem anymore: it can be used and even extended with proprietary addons if needed.

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 15, 2013 20:07 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152) [Link] (1 responses)

Sorry about the late reply but glibc is also LGPL and Google avoids it like the plague.

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Dec 3, 2013 12:42 UTC (Tue) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]

Does it necessarily follow from Google's choice of bionic rather than glibc that that they "avoid it like the plague" for licensing reasons? Seems like there are technical reasons to use bionic rather than glibc in phone environments (it's much smaller, apparently works better at very low clock frequencies, etc.). Course, they *might* have chosen it because of the license, but it seems dangerous to assume political reasons for a technical choice, absent any citation.